University of Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus Zach Savich reads from his Iowa Poetry Prize-winning collection, "Full Catastrophe Living." "Fall Catastrophe Living" was just released by the University of Iowa Press. In meditations, songs, slapstick...
Two International Writing Program (IWP) participants active in cinema -- Azeem Sajjad from Pakistan and Yahya Alabdallah from Jordan -- read from their work.
Sajjad's screenplays include "A Short Life," "The Third Man" and "The Reunion." He...
Hong Kong essayist, fiction writer and editor Xu Xi, the Barbara Bedell Visiting Writer in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, reads from her essay collection "Evanescent Isles."
In "Evanescent Isles," Xu Xi writes of Hong Kong's...
Xander Maksik from the Writer's Workshop reads a short story called "Trial." Fedosy Santaella, Venezuelan fiction writer, reads a short story. Efrat Mishori (poet, essayist; Israel) reads some poems.